In the white fields I became a quiet girl, With the voice of a bird I cry out for love.
—Akhmatova
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Love, Pain & Lyricism
by Jeffrey Hart
The Word that Causes Death’ s Defeat, by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Nancy K. Anderson (Yale, 352 pp., $30)
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Jeffrey Hart is a contributor to National Review.
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